Tom, maybe I'm missing something important, but HTML table cells will wrap automatically. Setting width=50% for a
cell should force wrapping to a maximum of half the current
total column span.
I just tried it and I see the problem about spaces.
Hmm. Afaik, somehow spaces are gonna have to go in there somehow. ..
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $bigstring = 'qawsedrftgyhujikolplokijuhygtfrdeswaqawsedrftgyhujiko
+lp';
my $width = 10;
print padit($bigstring,$width,"\n");
sub padit
{
my $padme = shift;
my $width = shift;
my $separator = shift;
my $position = 0;
my $padded;
while ($position < length $padme)
{
$padded .= substr $padme, $position, 1;
$position++;
if ($position % $width == 0)
{
$padded .= $separator;
}
}
return $padded;
}
best of luck
Andy